{"id":408,"date":"2015-01-04T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T19:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/04\/a-celebration-of-american-quilts-2\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T19:22:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T19:22:00","slug":"a-celebration-of-american-quilts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/a-celebration-of-american-quilts-2.html","title":{"rendered":"“A Celebration of American Quilts”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\u201cA Celebration of American Quilts\u201d is a small exhibition
\naccompanied by a very large reference volume, \u201cFour Centuries of Quilts\u201d.  The DeWitt Wallace Art Museum, one of the
\nArt Museums of Colonial Williamsburg, is showing only a small number of quilts
\nfrom their large collection (12 quilts).   
\nThe real gem is not the exhibit, however, but the large reference volume
\nwritten by curators Linda Baumgarten and Kimberly Smith Ivey, with 356 pages and over 300 color illustrations.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nThe history of quilting fabrics is a long one.  Early warriors and fire fighters wore
\ngarments of heavily quilted cotton and other fibers for protection.  Quilted cloth was a protection from the
\nelements and was also used as padding. 
\nQuilts, as bedcovers, did not originated in the US, although quilting
\nhas been extremely popular in this country. Fabrics introduced into Europe from
\nthe east were made into bedcoverings as well as whole cloth quilts of wool and
\nother local materials.  These, then,
\nwere introduced into the newly populated US in the 17th<\/sup> and 18th<\/sup>
\ncenturies.  Once valued only for their
\nutilitarian purposes, quilts today are regarded as artistic expressions.  The skill of the makers in creating images
\nof color and pattern is not the entire process, however.  The real story lies in the history, thoughts
\nand emotions sewn into the textiles by their makers.       <\/span><\/div>\n
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\nThere are many folk tales about magic and supernatural
\npowers attributed to textiles, especially bedcovers, which protect against cold
\nbut also evils that might befall those at rest.  These stories about the quilt makers are unfortunately often
\nlost, as many of these textile works of art were neither dated nor signed.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\n\u201cFour Centuries of Quilts\u201d catalogs the museum\u2019s collection
\nof nearly 180 quilts and the authors have attempted to relate the stories of
\nthe quiltmakers, bringing their efforts into our world today.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\n Four Centuries of Quilts, Linda Baumgarten and  Kimberly Smith Ivey, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Yale University Press<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nLinda Baumgarten is the curator of textiles and
\ncostume.  She is also the author of \u201cWhat
\nClothes Reveal\u201d.  Kimberly Smith Ivey is
\nthe curator of textiles and historic interiors.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nA  Celebraton of
\nAmerican Quilts can be seen through May, 2016<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cA Celebration of American Quilts\u201d is a small exhibition accompanied by a very large reference volume, \u201cFour Centuries of Quilts\u201d.  The DeWitt Wallace Art Museum, one of the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg, is showing only a small number of quilts from their large collection (12 quilts).    The real gem is not the exhibit, however,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}